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Re: SL has almost limitless possibilities

icecold — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 06:09:26 GMT

I think there is a lot of potential for SL and similar games. You can read more at
http://christhames.com/blogs/thames/archive/2006/04/25/20.aspx

Re: ActiveWorlds?

feras — Sat, 15 Apr 2006 09:25:26 GMT

AW has been around for about TEN YEARS and the tecnology behind it is TEN YEARS OLD, Second Life isnt competing with Active Worlds cause AW cant compete

Re: Re: Re: MMO? What's that? ;)

GwynethLlewelyn — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 23:47:33 GMT

For all of you with the impression that you have seen a "game" just because it has cute, 3D graphics, let this simple warning suffice: Second Life is a virtual world, the Matrix, still on version 0.1, and things like Second Life will be the World-Wide Web of the future — one that is not limited to 2D coloured rectangles, but that will use a 3D desktop environment.

So the video did not impress you much? It's only natural. I remember having seen the first Apple Lisa, or Windows 2.0. Really, it wasn't impressive at all — clunky, slow, uninteresting, and in black & white. Nobody would have dreamed it evolved into the GUIs of today. The same happened to the Web 10 years afterwards; who would have dreamed in 1992 that people used to text-based browsing would ever see cool AJAX-supported sites like this one? :)

Re: Re: Second Life Forums

Chris — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 18:53:39 GMT

I met you the other day orcmid, my name was Avid Stilman in the game.

Re: Re: 55,Top and excellent, 顶级棒呀`

fengyihot — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 00:09:20 GMT

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Re: ActiveWorlds?

Heratiki — Sun, 26 Mar 2006 07:21:31 GMT

I'm an active Second Life member (Currently over a year old) and the difference between the two is that with Second Life you and the people on the game with you control the content... It's not limited to anything other than try not to make the other guy mad while you fiddle... I've seen it all from Virtual "ladies" to Nuclear Weapons to beautiful weddings... I even make a small income in Second Life which is also very different from Active Worlds... That and everything you make is intantaneous... IE with Active World's it has to be submitted... Well with Second Life if you can think it and dream it then you can probably make it... It literally is a Second Life...

Heratiki Turnbull

ActiveWorlds?

nurbles — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 19:49:21 GMT

Just curious how this isn't just like ActiveWorlds, which has been around for at least TEN YEARS. Other than being competition for AW, what's actually new about SL?

SL has almost limitless possibilities

TDavid — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 13:17:51 GMT

Been exploring SL for a little while now and it has almost limitless possibilities. I've even built and sold a few scripted objects using the LSL scripting language. This is much more than a "game" as people tend to think of MMOs.

Re: Re: This is so cool!

sean_mcad — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 13:00:48 GMT

Only thing is...you guys work to hard. I saw the video on channel 9. Working at 2am should only happen if you started at 7pm :)

Re: Fun on 10 Island!

anonymous — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 12:13:42 GMT

Sheesh! Get a room.

Re: This is so cool!

Erik — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 06:14:10 GMT

Thanks...we're glad you like! You should checkout Atlas.

Re: 55,Top and excellent, 顶级棒呀`

walkman — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 05:20:20 GMT

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Re: Re: This is so cool!

Duncan — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 04:33:15 GMT

Thanks Sean! :)

Re: This is so cool!

sean_mcad — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 02:37:36 GMT

As a Dev I cant get over how responsive this Ajax driven website is!

This is so cool!

sean_mcad — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 02:17:58 GMT

I am really turned on to Ajax now!

Re: Second Life Forums

orcmid — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 23:35:11 GMT

Come to the island and you can see the cast (maybe others as we get into new days on10) right there.

Re: And the building continues!

orcmid — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 23:31:30 GMT

Oh that was you who gave me the tip about opening the box last night. My guy likes the T-shirt. I want to know where you got that great "Minority Report" effect when you were doing something before you flew off.

Re: Re: MMO? What's that? ;)

Lyndal — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 17:12:12 GMT

The traditional approach in SL is to earn/spend Lindens... not spend real money to BUY Lindens. You certainly are not required to spend any money at all! There is a free basic account (can't own land and I think some other restrictions).

However, I think you are talking about two different topics in your post.... 1) spending money to buy things you didn't "earn" in the traditional way, and 2) spending money for a subscription-based game. There have been way too many cycles spent debated both all over message boards. #1 has been beat to death all over message boards. #2 is just whether you think it's worth it or not! I'm struggling with you tieing this somehow to something you "don't believe" in.

Mainly I just wanted to point out that SL does NOT require you spend ANY money.

Re: Where are you all!

Duncan — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 16:35:18 GMT

I thought Anne might be lonely so I logged in to visit... if you have the time, you really should check this place out... I snagged a free t-shirt... ok, it was a virtual t-shirt, but it was cool all the same!

Re: Re: MMO? What's that? ;)

Duncan — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 16:34:12 GMT

I'm with you there on the monthly fees. I was an Asheron's Call addict for some time until I quit cold turkey and I haven't been back. Second Life is a bit different in that you don't have to pay anything to join or continue to participate, you only need to pay if you want to own virtual land, etc...

You also might be interested to know that there are some games, Guild Wars (http://guildwars.com/) for example, that are MMORPGs but aren't charging monthly fees. Personally I'm not sure how that will work out in the long run, it costs money to run a server farm, patch bugs, etc... so a no-fee system seems likely to need to shut down at some point.

Where are you all!

Anne78 — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 16:01:20 GMT

The island is deserted! I know it's only 9am SL time, but come on people WAKE UP! lol

Re: MMO? What's that? ;)

Dengin — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 15:23:42 GMT

I don't believe in paying for a game after you've bought it, so MMORPGs are out for me. I also don't believe in paying real money for virtual assets, that goes way back to some MUDs where you cuold buy equipment for your character with real money. Never understood the trade in Diablo 2 items either.

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Re: why are the all videos so simple?

ChristianW — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 08:27:12 GMT

They are supposed to be. If you watch the "What is on10" video on channel9.msdn.com they repeat over and over and over ... ahem... where channel9 is for those who want to know the technology behind everything, 10 is for those who want to know the people. Or something like that :)

Christian...